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Globalization Decimating US I.T. Jobs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we-knew-that dept.

mrraven writes, "According to Ronald Reagan's former deputy secretary of the treasury in this article in Counterpunch, globalization is destroying US I.T. jobs. From the article: 'During the past five years (January 01 – January 06), the information sector of the US economy lost 644,000 jobs, or 17.4 per cent of its work force. Computer systems design and related work lost 105,000 jobs, or 8.5 per cent of its work force. Clearly, jobs offshoring is not creating jobs in computers and information technology.'" Paul Craig Roberts quotes a number of formerly pro-globalization economists who are now seeing the light of the harrowing of the US middle class. It's not limited to I.T. Roberts quotes one recanting economist, Alan Blinder, as saying that 42–56 million American service-sector jobs are susceptible to offshoring.

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  1. Re:Rhetoric by CosmeticLobotamy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are we being manipulated? If so by who...

    You hit the nail on the head, there, man. The Democrats, and the clearly unthwartable propaganda machine they've built that has won them all their impressive power, have finally swayed Slashdot and CNN away from their traditionally pro-authoritarian views.

    Some people will claim that a rise in political stories has something to do with the upcoming elections. Those people have clearly been bribed.

  2. Re:In more trouble than most realize... by dingDaShan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yea, I am experiencing this too... This guy from Singapore installed a router here and he was in India at the time. It was really amazing how foreigners can defy physics now. Geez the internet is changing everything.

  3. Re:In more trouble than most realize... by misleb · · Score: 5, Funny
    The US *DOES* have a seriously bad management culture which is a far bigger threat than outsourcing IMHO.


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  4. Re:In more trouble than most realize... by DrEldarion · · Score: 4, Funny

    The US *DOES* have a seriously bad management culture which is a far bigger threat than outsourcing IMHO.

    Maybe we should outsource the management.

  5. Re:In more trouble than most realize... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Disclaimer: I am an IT manager

    Dude, you didn't need that disclaimer, your post looks like a powerpoint sheet: a nice bulleted list, it has manager all over it.

  6. Theres always the miltary by bxbaser · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hear job growth in the military is huge.

  7. Re:In more trouble than most realize... by metamatic · · Score: 2, Funny
    A private sector company can't be expected to invest in research that pays off in ten years; there are too many uncertainties in business to ask investors to shoulder that.

    I'm glad nobody's told IBM that.

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